New Delhi: The Congress in the Rajya Sabha has raised doubts over key budgetary proposals like for the proposed health insurance scheme and setting MSP at 50 per cent above the cost describing them as "jumlas" and also accused the Centre of exaggerating data related to job creation.

Questioning one of the key highlights of the budget, which the government has projected as a pro-farmer measure, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh stated that while it has been said that the MSP would be set at 50 per cent above the cost, it had not been made clear what would be the criterion for deciding the cost of production.

The cost varied according to the method chosen, he said 

Referring to a newspaper interview by a NITI Aayog functionary, he said it appeared that the promise made by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was the government's "jumla number one".

He also claimed that insufficient funds were allocated for the health insurance scheme. Ramesh claimed the scheme would anyway benefit private hospitals rather than the public.

It is being touted as 'ModiCare', he said. Taking a jibe, he said by this logic AIIMS may be called an institute of "Modical" sciences.

Ramesh said that an insurance scheme existed during the UPA tenure and only the money had been increased. It was a work in continuation, he claimed.

A former Union minister, Ramesh, said that a health assurance approach would have been better than an insurance scheme as past experience has demonstrated.

He said the budgetary allocation required for the scheme was somewhere between 12,000 crore to 1 lakh crore but a grossly insufficient Rs 2,000 crore had been allocated.